Improvement in mechanisms for feeding heel-stiffeners or counter-blanks



S. & G. FJMUOBE.

Mechanism for Feeding Heel-Stifleners or Counter-Blanks.

No.l6l,8ll. Patented Abril6,1875.

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STEPHEN MOORE AND GEORGE F. MOORE, OF SUDBURY, MASS, ASSIGNORS TOSTEPHEN MOORE AND HOMER ROGERS, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN MECHANISMS FOR FEEDING HEELSTIFFENERS 0R COUNTER-BLANKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 16 [,8 ll, dated April(5, 1875; application filed March 15, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, STEPHEN MOORE and GEORGE F. MOORE, of Sudbury, ofthe county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a newand use ul Mechanism for Feeding Heel-Stiffeners or OounterBlanks toMechanism for Dividing and Searting them; and do hereby declare the sameto be fully described in the following specification, and represented inthe accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a top view, Fig. 2 aside elevation, and Fig. 3 a longitudinal and vertical section, of saidfeeding mechanism, the latter figure showing its arrangement with twodrawrollers and a slitting-knife.

This machinery is designed to hold and sueeessively feed forwardelliptical or other proper shaped heel-stiffener or counter-blanks, inorder that each, by means of a pair of rollers or wheels, may be seizedand moved up to and against a knife, so as to be split or dividedlengthwise or along the middle into two separate parts or counters.

1n the drawings, A denotes a bed or table, grooved lengthwise throughoutits middle to receive a slide, B, there being arranged upon such bed ortable a hopper or two curved standards, O O, of suitable form to receivea pack or pile of the blanks, a top view of one of which is shown inFig. 4. The slider has a discharger or plate, D, which projects abovethe surface of the table a distance about equal to the thickness of ablank. Furthermore, there is fixed to the slide B, at its rear, ahandle, E, and at its front a bow-spring, F, the lower part a of thespring only being fastened to the slide B. This spring passes fromunderneath the table to and over the top thereof, and rests upon theupper surface of the slider. The part of it over the slider is inclinedor provided with an inclined lip, I), turned up on its inner edge. inadvance of the hopper there are applied to the table two guides, H H,which are parallel in part, but curve inward toward each other near thehopper. The seizing-rolls are represented at I I and the slitting-knifeat K. The upper edges of the guides H H are on a level with that part ofthe top of the table upon which the hopper is placed, the portion of theupper surface of the table on which said guides are fixed being somewhatbelow the bottom of the hopper.

In operating the mechanism, an attendant, having hold of the handle ofthe slide B, is to impart to such slide a reciprocating rectilinearmotion longitudinally. During each forward movement of the slide thelowermost blank of the pile in the hopper will be forced forward out ofthe hopper, and into the space between the guides H H. During thebackward movement of the slide the blank will be met by the presser orbow spring F, and, by it, will be moved back between and against thecurved parts 0 e of the guides, so as to be adjusted by them, with itsmedial line directly over and in a vertical plane with the medial lineof the slide. In the meantime the spring will be drawn back upon andwill ride over and pr ss the blank down upon the slide, and hold itthereto while the slide may be next advanced. During the said nextforward movement of the slide not only will the said blank be advancedby it and delivered to the rolls to be moved by them up to and againstthe knife, so as to be split by it, but another blank will be removedfrom the lower part of the pile. This blank, in its turn, will be forcedback between the guides by the presser, and, after having been dulyadjusted by them, it will be moved forward into the bite of the rolls bythe said presser. Thus, during each forward movement of the slide, twoblanks will be advanced by it simultaneouslyone into the space betweenthe guides and the other into the bite of the rollers.

We claim as our invention The combination of the slide B, provided withthe plate D, and the spring or presser F with the table A, provided withthe hopper O O and the guides H H, all substantially as and for thepurpose described.

STEPHEN MOORE. GEORGE F. MOORE. Witnesses:

J ERVIS E. How, T. P. HURLBUT.

